{"product_id":"egyptian-travelling-interpreter-arabic-without-teacher-english-travellers-7aegfbgp","title":"The Egyptian Travelling Interpreter, or Arabic without a Teacher, for English Travellers visiting Egypt.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA scarce Arabic phrasebook with excellent provenance. This copy belonged to Hardwicke Rawnsley (1851-1920) who would’ve taken this on one of his trips to Egypt with renowned archaeologist, Finders Petrie (1853-1942).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book’s author, Gabriel Sacroug (d.1895) served as interpreter at the British consulates in Cairo, Jeddah, and Constantinople. It contains a two-hundred page English to (transliterated) Arabic vocabulary, a short grammar of Egyptian Arabic and a wonderful selection of dialogues and proverbs. The latter is particularly valuable as a digest of proverbs common in nineteenth-century Egypt, with many curious and poetic examples: “The clarinet is in my sleeve and the breath in my mouth (ready for playing). \u003cem\u003eUsed to express ‘I am completely ready for business.’\u003c\/em\u003e” (p.400).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work is in large part an unacknowledged piracy of E. Nolden’s \u003cem\u003eVocabulaire Français Arabe\u003c\/em\u003e (1844). Some of the dialogues were adapted from Assaad Yakoob Kayat’s \u003cem\u003eThe Eastern Traveller’s Interpreter\u003c\/em\u003e (1844) and other additions were presuably added by Sacroug himself. Clearly unconcerned about his appropriations Sacroug marked each copy with his seal and even included a line warning against further intellectual theft, “All Rights of Translation and Reproduction are reserved” (p.[ii]).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe locate copies at Oxford, Munich, Harvard plus Biblionet Drenthe in the Netherlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZack, L., “Three Cases of Plagiarism?” in \u003cem\u003eHistoriographia Linguistica\u003c\/em\u003e Vol. 49, Nos 2\/3 (2022), pp.267-301.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48377632948381,"sku":"263161","price":950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/0045\/9677\/files\/263161_03.jpg?v=1780632051","url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/egyptian-travelling-interpreter-arabic-without-teacher-english-travellers-7aegfbgp","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}